# Did I screw up my alfredo sauce?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-screw-up-my-alfredo-sauce/516866>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 9, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-screw-up-my-alfredo-sauce/516866 "2009-11-09T01:25:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-screw-up-my-alfredo-sauce/516866/1 "2009-11-09T01:25:28Z")

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Diced the Parmesan very fine and stirred it into the hot butter & cream mixture.

Stirred & stirred & stirred & stirred & stirred.

After it started to cool on the noodles, cheese bits were obvious, though. Was it congealing out or did it never melt?

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-screw-up-my-alfredo-sauce/516866/2 "2009-11-09T01:54:59Z")

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WAG: It didn’t melt. You would be better off grating it extremely finely, like with a microplane-type grater. It practically dissolves on contact with the butter-cream mix if you do that.

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**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-screw-up-my-alfredo-sauce/516866/3 "2009-11-09T02:09:55Z")

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I’m with **Ferret Herder**. I’ve always grated the Parmesan. I have a rotary grater I use, but there’s no reason you couldn’t do it with a microplane or even a standard cheese grater (use the fine holes).

I also just dump the noodles into the pan I’ve used to heat the cream & butter (I use a frypan so the noodles fit) then dump the cheese over the top & stir until the cheese melts & mixes with the cream.

Damn, now I want Fettucine Alfredo.

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Buttons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Mr\_Buttons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Buttons)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-screw-up-my-alfredo-sauce/516866/4 "2009-11-09T05:00:47Z")

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> [@Athena](#):
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> I’m with **Ferret Herder**. I also just dump the noodles into the pan I’ve used to heat the cream & butter (I use a frypan so the noodles fit) then dump the cheese over the top & stir until the cheese melts & mixes with the cream.

This is what I do too.